Cusat 2016
Cusat 2016
Cusat 2016
Physics PG (Final)
1. How much of energy is to be added to an ice cube of 200 grams at 0oC to convert to
water at same temperature?
A. 6.69 kJ
B. 66.9 kJ
C. 6.69 kCal
D. 66.9 kCal
2. The actual work done by a heat engine in one hour is 2.7×106 Joules, while the frictional
losses in the engine are 6×105 Joules. The engine operates between temperature of 500 K
and 1000 K. What is the overall efficiency of the engine?
A. 50%
B. 4.5%
C. 41%
D. 25%
A. 2×106 m/s
B. 108 m/s
C. 9.6 ×108 m/s
D. 107 m/s
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4. A cube of 1 cm side is placed in an electric field of 100 N/C. What will be the net flux
through the cube if the electric field is perpendicular to the left face of the cube?
A. 0
B. 100 N/C
C. 50 N/C
D. 1 N/C
5. A total electric charge of 8 nC is distributed uniformly over the surface of a metal sphere
of radius 27 cm. If the potential is zero at a point at infinity, what will be the potential at
a point 8 cm from the centre of the sphere?
A. 266 volts
B. 138 volts
C. 100 volts
D. 500 volts
6. What must be the charge of a particle of mass 5 grams be for it to remain stationary when
placed in a down ward directed electric field of magnitude 800 N/C?
A. 0.0000613 C
B. ‒ 0.0000613 C
C. 0.0000160 C
D. ‒ 0.0000160 C
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7. Two long straight wires carrying a current I and separated by a distance r exert a force F
on each other. If the current is increased to 4I and the distance reduced to r/6, then the
force between the wires will be
A. F
B. 1.5 F
C. 96 F
D. 576 F
8. A person stands 40 m from a flag pole. The angle at the top of the flag pole with the
horizontal at eye is 25o. What is the height of the flag pole, if the distance between the
eye of the person to his feet is 1.8 m?
A. 20.4 m
B. 200.4 m
C. 40 m
D. 400 m
A. 3981 Hernries
B. 3981 ohms
C. 3981 ohms
D. 3981 Henries
10. How many protons, neutrons and electrons are there in 3He ?
A. 2, 1, 2
B. 3, 2, 2
C. 2, 3, 2
D. 3, 2, 3
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11. The binding energy per nucleon for 238U is about 7.6 MeV, while it is about 8.6 MeV for
nuclei of half that mass. If a 238U nucleus were to split into two equal size nuclei, about
how much energy would be released in the process?
A. 476 MeV
B. 238 MeV
C. 119 MeV
D. 0 MeV
12. Three forces acting on a particle are given by F1 = 20i – 36j + 73k N, F2 = ‒17i +21j –
46k N and F3 = ‒12k N. What is the magnitude of the resultant force?
A. 21.4 N
B. 3 N
C. ‒3 N
D. ‒21.4 N
13. When a mass of 400 grams is hung at the end of a vertical spring, the spring stretches 30
cm. What is the spring constant of the spring?
A. 13.07 N.m
B. 13.07 N/m
C. 133.3 N.m
D. 133.3 N/m
14. A 20 g piece of aluminum (c 0.21 cal / g.o C) at 90oC is dropped into a cavity in a large
block of ice at 0oC. How much ice does the aluminum melt?
A. 47 g
B. 0.47 g
C. 20 g
D. 4.7 g
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16. A conductor has a resistance of 1 ohm if the current in it is 1 ampere for a potential
difference of 1 volt. This is
A. Ohm’s law
B. Gauss law
C. Coulumb’s law
D. Lenz’s law
18. On a rainy day, thin oil films on water show different colours, due to
A. dispersion
B. interference
C. polarization
D. diffraction
19. The Laplace transform of the function e-αt has the form
A. 1/(s+α)
B. 1/s(s+α)
C. α/s
D. (s+α)
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20. What energy transformation takes place when ice is converted to water?
21. The high input impedance of field effect transistor (FET) amplifier is due to
23. An electron with a velocity v is injected into a uniform magnetic field B. The force on it
is
24. Choose an answer which shows the electromagnetic waves in order of increasing energy
26. A uniform, 200N board of length L has two objects hanging from it: 300N at L/3 from
one end and 400N at 3L/4 from the same end. What single additional force acting on the
board will cause the board to be in equilibrium?
A. (150/V)
B. 150/(V)
C. 150/ V
D. (V/150)
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A. 9×10‒2
B. 9×10‒3
C. 9×10‒4
D. 9×10‒5
A. electric force
B. magnetic force
C. gravitational force
D. cosmic force
A. cubic
B. monoclinic
C. triclinic
D. orthorhombic
32. For all metals, the ratio of the thermal conductivity to the electrical conductivity is
directly proportional to
A. T
B. T2
C. 1/T
D. T1/2
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33. A fielder in a cricket match throws a ball from the boundary line to the wicket keeper.
The ball describes a parabolic path. Which of the following quantities remain constant,
during the ball’s motion in air (ignore air resistance)?
A. Kinetic energy
B. speed
C. horizontal component of velocity
D. vertical component of velocity
34. What will be the voltage at the output of the following circuit?
A) 6 volts
B) 10 volts
C) 60 volts
D) 20 volts
35. We desire to measure the current through and voltage across a resistor connected in a
circuit. How should the ammeter and the voltmeter be connected?
36. A glass tube is bent into the form of a U. A 50 cm height of olive oil in one arm is found
to balance 46 cm of water in the other. What is the density of olive oil?
A. 920 kg/m3
B. 1080 kg/m3
C. 0.920 kg/m3
D. 1.092 kg/m3
38. For an electron transition from excited state to ground state which of the following is
true?
39. The emitter region in the PNP transistor is more heavily doped than the base region so
that
A. the flow across the base region will be mainly due to electrons
B. the flow across the base region will be mainly due to holes
C. recombination will be increased in the base region
D. base current will be high
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40. The truth table given below is for (A and B are inputs, Y is output)
A B Y
0 0 1
0 1 1
1 0 1
1 1 0
A. NAND gate
B. XOR gate
C. AND gate
D. NOR gate
42. Which two of the following circuits are high pass filters?
A. I and II
B. I and III
C. I and IV
D. II and III
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44. The binary number 110000111101 corresponds to the hexa decimal number
A. CFD
B. D3C
C. DBF
D. C3D
A. e / 2
B. e / 2
C. x
D. 1
46. If the four lenses shown below are made of the same material, which lens has the shortest
positive focal length?
A B C D
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48. Identify the logic operation performed by the circuit given here
A. NOT
B. NAND
C. OR
D. NOR
49. In the production of X rays, the term “bremsstrahlung” refers to which of the
following?
50. Which of the following best represents the temperature dependence of the resistivity
of an undoped semiconductor?
51. A particle of mass M is moving with constant velocity parallel to x-axis. Its angular
momentum with respect to origin
A. is zero
B. remains constant
C. goes on increasing
D. goes on decreasing
52. A freshly prepared radioactive source of half life 2 h emits radiation of intensity which is
64 times the permissible safe level. The minimum time after which it would be possible
to work with this source safely is
A. 6 h
B. 12 h
C. 24 h
D. 48 h
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53. Which of the following best expresses the scientific definition of experimental precision?
A. the agreement among several measurements that have been made in the same way
B. the number of decimal points used to record a measurement
C. the closeness of a measurement to the accepted value for a specific physical quantity
D. the ratio of the median value of a set of measurements to the number of measurement
54. Which statement best explains how a microwave oven heats food?
55. Which of the following statements best describes the difference between the Bohr model
and the contemporary model of the atom?
A. The Bohr model assumes a neutral nucleus whereas the contemporary model assumes
that electrons orbit around a positive nucleus.
B. The Bohr model assumes a continuous range for the orbital radius whereas the
contemporary model assumes discrete, nonradiating radii.
C. The Bohr model assumes that photons are emitted from the nucleus whereas the
contemporary model assumes they arise from electron transitions.
D. The Bohr model assumes well-defined orbital paths for electrons whereas the
contemporary model assumes a spatial probability distribution
56. If two waves of intensities I and 4I superpose, then the maximum and minimum
intensities are
A. 5I and 3I
B. 9I and I
C. 9I and 3I
D. 9I and 4I
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57. Young’s double slit experiment is carried out by using green, red and blue light, one
colour at a time. The fringe widths recorded are G , R and B respectively. Then
A. G R B
B. G R B
C. R G B
D. G B R
59. Induced electric currents can be explained using which of the following laws?
A. Gauss's Law
B. Ampere's Law
C. Faraday's Law
D. Ohm's Law
60. The potential drop between the terminals of a battery is equal to the battery's EMF
when
A. energy
B. momentum
C. charge
D. matter
A. 36 degrees Celsius
B. 20 degrees Celsius
C. 68 degrees Celsius
D. 293 degrees Celsius
A. scintillations
B. electrons
C. ions
D. photons
65. As a pendulum swings from its highest to its lowest point, it has the lowest acceleration
when it is:
1
A. h
2
3
B. h
2
C. 3h
D. zero
67. The electric field E inside a thin spherical shell carrying a surface charge density is
equal to
A. 0
B. zero
C. infinite
D. 2 0
69. The first scientist to receive two Nobel prizes in the same field was
A. Linus Pauling
B. Marie Curie
C. John Bardeen
D. Frederick Sanger
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A. capacitance
B. resistance
C. inductance
D. magnetic field
71. Which of the following materials has the lowest energy gap between the valence band
and the conduction band?
A. diamond
B. silicon
C. germanium
D. Indium antimonide (InSb)
72. If P, V and E denotes the momentum, velocity and K.E. of a particle then
dE
A. P
dt
dV
B. P
dV
dE
C. P
dV
d 2E
D. P
dt 2
A. solar constant
B. low temperature
C. very high temperature
D. None of the above
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74. The Compton shift is a function of the angle of the scattering photon. It does not depend
on the wavelength of the incident photon. The maximum possible shift in Compton
wavelength is at an angle
A. 0o
B. 90o
C. 180o
D. None of the above
75. A black body at a temperature of 1646 K has the wavelength corresponding to maximum
emission equal to 1.68 micron. Find the temperature of the moon if the maximum
emission is 14 micron.
A. 200K
B. 196.28K
C. 197.52K
D. None of the above
76. Persons sitting in an artificial satellite circling around the earth have
A. zero mass
B. zero weight
C. infinite weight
D. infinite mass
dx k
A. x0
dt m
d 2x k
B. 2 x 0
dt m
d 2x k
C. 2 x 0
dt m
d 2x k 2
D. 2 x 0
dt m
A. conservation of momentum
B. conservation of energy
C. mass-energy equivalence
D. conservation of mass
80. A piece of ice is floating in jar containing water. When the ice melts, the level of water
A. rises
B. falls
C. remains unchanged
D. rise or falls depends on the size of piece
81. A spherical body falls freely in a viscous liquid at room temperature. If the temperature
of the liquid is raised by 20°C, the terminal velocity of the body
A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains unchanged
D. indeterminate
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82. If a particle, moving in a magnetic field, increases its velocity then its radius of the
magnetic field circle will
A. remain constant
B. decrease
C. increase
D. zero
83. If a hole is drilled along the diameter of the earth and a stone is dropped into it. The stone
84. Two weightless springs have force constants k1 and k2 and connected in series. The
combination is loaded with m, the period of oscillation is
m
A. T 2
k1 k 2
1 1
B. T 2 m
k1 k 2
mk1k2
C. T 2
k1 k 2
A. an ellipse
B. a circle
C. a straight line
D. a parabola
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86. A mass of 1 kg is suspended from a spring and has a time period T on the surface of
earth. The period at the centre of the Earth is
A. zero
B. T
C. 2T
D. infinite
87. Below its critical temperature Tc, a superconducting material acts as a perfect
A. paramagnet
B. diamagnet
C. ferromagnet
D. antiferromagnet
89. Two springs of spring constants 1500 N/m and 3000 N/m are stretched by same force.
Their potential energies are in the ratios
A. 4 : 1
B. 1 : 4
C. 2 : 1
D. 1 : 2
90. If a star emitting orange light moves away from the earth, its colour will
A. appear red
B. appear yellow
C. remain the same
D. turns gradually blue
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91. When sound travels from air to water the quantity that remains unchanged is
A. speed
B. frequency
C. intensity
D. wavelength
A. Microwaves
B. Infra-red waves
C. Sound waves
D. Ultrasonic waves
93. The electron in the silver atom is in the state 2s1/2. The Lande splitting factor of the
electron is
A. ½
B. 2
C. 2.5
D. None of the above
94. In Carnot’s engine at the end of the cycle, the temperature of the working substance is
95. The internal energy of the ideal gas does not change during
A. isothermal process
B. isocharic process
C. isobaric process
D. adiabatic process
96. A bimetallic strip consists of brass and iron. When it is heated it bends into an arc with
the brass on the convex and iron on the concave side of the arc. This happens because
A. Pressure
B. Temperature
C. Volume
D. Temperature and volume
A. 30-300MHz
B. 30-300Ghz
C. 30-300kHz
D. 30-300hz
99. Heat cannot be wholly converted into work. This law was enunciated by
100. The source and sink temperature of a Carnot engine are 400k and 300k respectively.
What is the efficiency?
A. 100%
B. 75%
C. 33.3%
D. 25%
101. A body in a room cools from 85oC to 80oC in 9 minutes. The time taken to cool from
80oC to 75oC is
A. 9 minutes
B. less than 9 minutes
C. more than 9 minutes
D. either less or more than five minutes
A. zero
B. infinity
C. unity
D. 0.5
105. When a mass undergoes S.H.M. there is always a constant ratio between its displacement
and
A. Acceleration
B. Velocity
C. Mass
D. Period
A. Organ pipe
B. A stethoscope
C. Tuning fork
D. Quinckes tube
A. a scalar
B. a polar vector
C. a scalar as well as vector
D. an axial vector
108. Longitudinal waves are generated in steel rod by rubbing it at one end. The wavelength
depends upon
109. Cathode rays enter an electric field normal to lines of force, their path is a
A. straight line
B. ellipse
C. circle
D. parabola
A. e/m
B. e/2m
C. m/2e
D. None of the above
A. dQ (Q=heat absorbed)
B. dU (U=internal energy)
C. dS (S=entropy)
D. dF (F=free energy)
112. The area under the temperature-entropy curve for any thermodynamic process represents
A. Efficiency
B. Irreversibility
C. Work done
D. Heat absorbed or rejected
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113. If L has the dimensions of length; V that of potential and ε0 is the permittivity of free
space then quantity ε0LV have the dimensions of:
A. Current
B. Resistance
C. Charge
D. Voltage
A. 90o
B. 60o
C. 30o
D. 0o
115. When a carpet is beaten by a stick, the dust particles drop down according to
116. What remains constant when earth revolves round the sun?
A. Linear K.E.
B. Angular K.E.
C. Linear momentum
D. Angular momentum
117. To an astronaut in the spaceship, the sky appears pitch dark. This is due to
119. When the temperature increases, the angle of contact of liquid will
A. increase
B. decrease
C. remain unchanged
D. first decrease and then decrease
120. The wavelength of light coming from a star shifts towards the violet end of the spectrum.
This shows that star is
121. Ultrasonics are used for stirring liquid solutions in order to produce
A. soundless stirring
B. perfectly homogeneous solution
C. chemical reactions in them
D. none of the above
123. Compressed air coming out of punctured football becomes cooler because of
A. adiabatic expansion
B. Joule Thomson effect
C. isothermal expansion
D. energy dissipation
124. To keep correct time, watches are fitted with a balance wheel made of
A. Platinum
B. Tungsten
C. Invar
D. Stainless steel
125. The internal energy of a perfect gas does not change during
A. adiabatic process
B. isothermal process
C. isobaric process
D. isochoric process
A. zero
B. unity
C. maximum
D. minimum
A. Refraction
B. Diffraction
C. Interference
D. Polarization
A. Coulomb’s Law
B. Peltier Effect
C. Piezoelectric Effect
D. Doppler’s Principle
130. The absolute temperature of a perfectly black body is doubled. The heat radiated from it
will become how many times
A. 4 times
B. 8 times
C. 16 times
D. 32 times
131. The velocities of gas molecules are V, 2V, 3V, 4V and 5V. What is the rms speed of
these gas molecules?
A. 3V
B. 11V
C. (11)1/2V
D. 31/2V
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A. Pressure of the gas is equal to the total kinetic energy of the molecules in a unit
volume of the gas
B. The average kinetic energy of the gas molecules is proportional to the absolute
temperature of the gas
C. The average kinetic energy of the gas molecules is proportional to root of the absolute
temperature of the gas
D. The product of pressure and volume of a gas is always constant
136. If young’s experiment is preformed using two separate identical sources of light instead
of using two slits and one bulb
137. The ground state electron configuration for phosphorus, which has 15 electrons, is
138. Which one of the following is the name of a device used to measure voltage without
drawing ANY current from the circuit being measured?
A. a wattmeter
B. a galvanometer
C. an ammeter
D. a potentiometer
A. 0.482
B. 1.21
C. 2.05
D. 1.79
140. Which of the following statements is not correct about a voltage follower circuit?
A. 0.00020
B. 0.0020
C. 2.000
D. 2000
A. introduce quantum states that are close to the edges of the forbidden band
B. introduce quantum states that are near the center of the forbidden band
C. increase the energy of electrons in the valence band
D. increase the energy of electrons in the conduction band
143. Of these properties of a wave, the one that is independent of the others is its
A. amplitude
B. wavelength
C. speed
D. frequency
144. We desire to measure the current through and the voltage across a resistor connected in a
circuit. How should an ammeter and a voltmeter be connected to the resistor?
A. Becquerel
B. Curie
C. Rutherford
D. None of the above
146. A passenger in a moving train tosses a coin. If the coin falls behind him, the train must be
moving with
A. an acceleration
B. retardation
C. uniform speed
D. any of these
A. symmetric
B. anti-symmetric
C. pseudo-symmetric
D. None of the above
148. In Searle’s method for finding conductivity, the temperature gradient along the bar is
149. Decibel is
A. a musical instrument
B. a musical note
C. a measure of sound level
D. the wavelength of noise
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150. For a gas 0.67 this gas is made up of molecules which are
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A. Polyatomic
B. Monatomic
C. Diatomic
D. Mixture of diatomic and polyatomic molecules.
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